I have just installed openSUSE and am impressed so far apart from my wireless card is not 100% functional yet.

Here is the outputs of lspci and uname -r which are requested in the sticky:

linux-6atw:/home/coolieo # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS200/RS200M AGP Bridge [IGP 340M] (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 340M]
00:02.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533/M1535/M1543 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV/V/V+]
00:08.0 Modem: ALi Corporation M5457 AC'97 Modem Controller
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ601/6912/711E0 CardBus/SmartCardBus Controller
00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4)
00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 330M/340M/350M
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)


linux-6atw:/home/coolieo # uname -r
2.6.27.7-9-pae

It seems the device is recognised, as these outputs show:

linux-6atw:/home/coolieo # lsmod | grep b43
b43legacy 98900 0
rfkill 8660 2 rfkill_input,b43legacy
mac80211 199840 1 b43legacy
led_class 3896 1 b43legacy
input_polldev 3664 1 b43legacy
ssb 38388 1 b43legacy



linux-6atw:/home/coolieo # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

pan0 no wireless extensions.


The problem is getting suse to actually connect to a network. How can I scan for AP's and connect to them. I have opened network manager and manually added my ap's details and password and selected automatically connect but there seems to be no connection and I cannot see any errors or information regarding the connection.

Any help will be greatly appreciated. I have had the card work with other disros out the box but not with this one :-(

Searching google and this forum has not helped me, I may not be searching the correct keywords so I am sorry i there is already information on this topic.

Thank you,
Steven

1. The key output in this case is the output of lspcmcia The system works this way: Modules find the card. Try
lsmod |grep pcmcia
should show you some pcmcia stuff. Then the cards can be seen, and of course they need their drivers, and config files

2. You seem to be up, but not running. Kill dhcpcd or dhclient. Type

iwlist wlan0 scan |less

and find your essid and the MAC address of the router. The first line oc each node has
Cell NN - Address: 00:00:00:00:00:00

That's the ap, the mac address. Copy that and paste it into the line below

iwconfig wlan0 essid "My ESSID" ap 00:00:00:00:00:00

if successful 'iwconfig wlan0' will say something like

Mode:Managed Frequency:2.417 GHz Access Point: 00:22:B0:90:0B:4B

That means you're in. Now run dhcpcd (or dhclient) with the argument wlan0 and you should get an IP. If it barfs, turn off encryption, abnd we'll fix that.